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Plans to turn former police station into flats

Austen Shakespeare
Local Democracy Reporting Service
Google The former police station on Sunderland Road, Felling. The large red-bricked building has white detailing around the windows. It has a similar appearance to a large Victorian school building and sits directly on to the pavement.Google
The Sunderland Road building has been empty for five years

A former police station that has stood empty for years could be turned into flats.

The building on Sunderland Road in Felling, Gateshead, stopped being used as a police station in 1999.

Planning documents showed it was later used as a youth probation centre and a school, but had been empty for more than five years.

Max Leo Investments has applied to Gateshead Council to turn it into an apartment complex with 15 flats.

Planning documents said the project would give "a diverse group of people" the chance to rent an affordable property in the area and bring the building back into use.

A previous application was submitted and approved in 2018 to turn the former station into an aparthotel, reports the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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